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[DREAM MY DREAM]

“cover – music to graphics” – an exhibition of lp covers and a  
listening station
8 – 22 July 2007

Opening: Sunday, 8 July, 8 pm
Venue: fluctuating images, Jakobstr. 3, Stuttgart

Covers by Josef Albers, Tobias Rehberger/Günther Förg, stapelberg &  
fritz and others and a limited poster edition by stapelberg & fritz

Curators: Cornelia Lund and Holger Lund in cooperation with Pulver  
Records
Guest curator: David Dufour

Opening hours: Thursday 6–8 pm, Saturday and Sunday 4–6 pm


Lp covers have to fit the music inside, but they also have to look  
better than every other cover in the shop; both aspects taken together  
have made creating these covers a cutting edge discipline for  
designers. It is no wonder that artists like Andy Warhol (eg with his  
famous banana sleeve art for The Velvet Underground) or Josef Albers,  
amongst many others, have created ambitious designs in the field.
The historical part of the exhibition “cover – music to graphics” will  
take a close look at cover designs in which squares are central to the  
aesthetic. Many designers have taken the fact that the record sleeve  
itself is a square into account and have put that geometric form to  
use. The covers will be selected from the record collection of David  
Dufour, with insightful comments from the collector himself.
Today, the design of record covers remains as important as before,  
because vinyl – not CD or mp3 – is the format of choice for certain  
styles of music, think Electro or even Hip Hop. As an example for  
successful contemporary cover design we will present the  
internationally renowned label Pulver Records (www.pulver-rec.com) from  
Stuttgart. This marks a first in-house collaborative show – both Pulver  
Records and fluctuating images are situated in the same building in  
Jakobstr. 3.
A turntable station where the records within the covers can be listened  
to lends an audiovisual element to the exhibition.

Further information: www.pulver-rec.com

Supported by Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

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